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17th September 2007

Bumper baby bonus



Categories : Politics |

Senator proposes $10,000 baby bonus | NEWS.com.au

This is purely self interest, but I like this proposal that Family First Senator Steve Fielding is taking to John Howard tomorrow – a government bonus of $10,000 on the birth of your third child. I just hope they implement it before February / March next year :P

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  1. 1 On September 20th, 2007, Michael Bentley said:

    When my first children were born here in the UK we got nothing for the first one and only a very small amount for the second and subsequent ones. I’m not sure what it is now as my little girl now has two young boys of her own.
    It seems that Australia is much more generous.

    As, I believe you say, ‘Good on yer.’

    From a lover of Australia and a regular visitor – even though I am very British.
    Michael

  2. 2 On September 20th, 2007, baggas said:

    Yeh we got abut $800 for our first two and then a year or so later they upped it to $3000. Now it’s a bit over $4000 I think which will come in handy… if nothing else it will pay for me to have a little time off when the baby is born. :)

    Haven’t heard any more news so I doubt this $10,00 proposal is going to go anywhere.

  3. 3 On October 22nd, 2007, bec said:

    i received 500 for my first child for 5 years and nothing for my second as she was born on the 5th of july 2004 so we missed out on the old baby bonus and the new one as well which hurt financially at the time. my husband and i would love to have a third child but it is not possible financially. so i am hoping something will change so we are able to afford another child. i am also wondering how many other families were in the same boat as us in 2004 as i thought it was very unfair we received nothing at all but i guess john howard doesn’t care what happened to us in 2004.

  4. 4 On January 6th, 2009, Robert said:

    We have just had our first and while the misses was still in hospital on the second day after she gave birth we thought we’d better jump onto this baby bonus thing before we get shafted so we filled out all the forms and sent the birth certificate form away and when the misses was released we went to medicare in Camden NSW to lodge the form for them and to change from single medicare users to a family users we then moved down the line to the so called Family Assistance counter and after that was done christmas came so we waited and waited thinking “well it is chrstmas” so we went in on the 6th because still no baby bonus. The lady’s there were very nice and with big smiles said they will help us out because our claim is probably going to be proccesed in two more days so with a smile the lady took down the misses mobile number and said she will ring.Ok sounds good! well not really we got a call a few hours later and apparently the lady at medicare who took our details said to just estimate when we thought we told center link when we became defacto so we did then the lady and ourselves took five pacers to the right to the family assistance counter and lodged the family assistance form. Now because that first lady said to just estimate (how,where,when and who)if you know what I mean we are not only going to have to wait for center link and family assistance to send some more forms to us to fill out but also we are now going to be investigated by center link because we were out by a little on the dates that we estimated (because we don’t carry a computer with us)when we declared defacto. Thats not a problem we have never cheated center link ever but it’s not far that we have to wait while there are cheats out there who get there bouns within a week.We know of 2 other couples who received there bonus’s within a week. So we have rang family assistance regarding our concerns and now they say our first claim is going to be canceled and they will send us a new claim form to fill out and send back in.So be careful when lodging your claim and make sure you can access your bank details,pay details, rent,dates for when you last wiped your bumb and so on.whould love to read someone elses debarcles with getting there baby bonusses.

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